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DALECHAMPIA volubilis E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
DALECHAMPIA volubilis E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 177;—Baill. Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 487, and Adansonia, iii. 161.
DALECHAMPIA capensis Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 106, partly and as to Gueinzius, 447, only; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243, partly and as to syn. Meyer only; not of Spreng. f.
DALECHAMPIA natalensis Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243.
Information
a scandent undershrub; stems slender, pubescent, twining, springing from a woody base, 6–8 ft. long; leaves distinctly petioled, firmly membranous, simple, deeply 3-partite with occasionally a pair of much smaller basal lobes superadded, lobes ovate, acute, their margin shortly serrate, base deep-cordate, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 3–4 in. wide, somewhat polished and very minutely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole pubescent or glabrous, 1–2 1/2 in. long; stipules lanceolate, spreading, minutely pubescent, 2 in. long; heads peduncled; peduncles minutely pubescent, 1–3 in. long; involucral bracts large, yellowish-green, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. wide, deep-cordate, both rather shallowly 3-lobed; lobes acute, their margin finely toothed; male bracts entire; male calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, acute; female calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, densely pinnately lacinulate on each side, lacinulæ slender, glandular, scabrous; ovary puberulous; style columnar, cylindric, entire, not dilated at the tip; capsule nearly glabrous, 1/3 in. across; cocci subglobose; seeds globose. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Umlazi (Umlaas) River, Drège, 4603! Krauss, 81! Berea, 150 ft., Wood, 565! 2428! 6186! near Durban, Gueinzius, 447! M‘Ken, 558! Gerrard, 702! Rehmann, 8806! Scott Elliot, 1698!
Notes
A very distinct but apparently a quite local species.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
DALECHAMPIA volubilis E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 177;—Baill. Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 487, and Adansonia, iii. 161.
DALECHAMPIA capensis Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 106, partly and as to Gueinzius, 447, only; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243, partly and as to syn. Meyer only; not of Spreng. f.
DALECHAMPIA natalensis Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243.
Information
a scandent undershrub; stems slender, pubescent, twining, springing from a woody base, 6–8 ft. long; leaves distinctly petioled, firmly membranous, simple, deeply 3-partite with occasionally a pair of much smaller basal lobes superadded, lobes ovate, acute, their margin shortly serrate, base deep-cordate, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 3–4 in. wide, somewhat polished and very minutely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole pubescent or glabrous, 1–2 1/2 in. long; stipules lanceolate, spreading, minutely pubescent, 2 in. long; heads peduncled; peduncles minutely pubescent, 1–3 in. long; involucral bracts large, yellowish-green, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. wide, deep-cordate, both rather shallowly 3-lobed; lobes acute, their margin finely toothed; male bracts entire; male calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, acute; female calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, densely pinnately lacinulate on each side, lacinulæ slender, glandular, scabrous; ovary puberulous; style columnar, cylindric, entire, not dilated at the tip; capsule nearly glabrous, 1/3 in. across; cocci subglobose; seeds globose. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Umlazi (Umlaas) River, Drège, 4603! Krauss, 81! Berea, 150 ft., Wood, 565! 2428! 6186! near Durban, Gueinzius, 447! M‘Ken, 558! Gerrard, 702! Rehmann, 8806! Scott Elliot, 1698!
Notes
A very distinct but apparently a quite local species.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
DALECHAMPIA volubilis E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 177;—Baill. Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 487, and Adansonia, iii. 161.
DALECHAMPIA capensis Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 106, partly and as to Gueinzius, 447, only; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243, partly and as to syn. Meyer only; not of Spreng. f.
DALECHAMPIA natalensis Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243.
Information
a scandent undershrub; stems slender, pubescent, twining, springing from a woody base, 6–8 ft. long; leaves distinctly petioled, firmly membranous, simple, deeply 3-partite with occasionally a pair of much smaller basal lobes superadded, lobes ovate, acute, their margin shortly serrate, base deep-cordate, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 3–4 in. wide, somewhat polished and very minutely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole pubescent or glabrous, 1–2 1/2 in. long; stipules lanceolate, spreading, minutely pubescent, 2 in. long; heads peduncled; peduncles minutely pubescent, 1–3 in. long; involucral bracts large, yellowish-green, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. wide, deep-cordate, both rather shallowly 3-lobed; lobes acute, their margin finely toothed; male bracts entire; male calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, acute; female calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, densely pinnately lacinulate on each side, lacinulæ slender, glandular, scabrous; ovary puberulous; style columnar, cylindric, entire, not dilated at the tip; capsule nearly glabrous, 1/3 in. across; cocci subglobose; seeds globose. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Umlazi (Umlaas) River, Drège, 4603! Krauss, 81! Berea, 150 ft., Wood, 565! 2428! 6186! near Durban, Gueinzius, 447! M‘Ken, 558! Gerrard, 702! Rehmann, 8806! Scott Elliot, 1698!
Notes
A very distinct but apparently a quite local species.
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